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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Made in Edendale: Bohemian Los Angeles and the politics of sexual identity, 1918--1953 Abstract: This study links the formation of post-New Deal identity politics directly to changed notions of personal identity, self-expression and political activism that emerged after World War One. The project traces that emergence through three sets of Angelenos: a rich network of artists, writers, and impresarios; a cohort of Communist Party organizers and fellow travelers; and a subculture of homosexual men and women. From their unique perspectives, each group propelled their contemporaries toward a new concept of selfhood that ultimately carried significant political implications. The and social relevance, fashioned an ideal of self-awareness and self-articulation that was pushed sharply toward social consciousness. Leftist activism about race relations and discrimination brought political attention to bear on how personal and minority identities were becoming steadily reified as categories of social oppression. By 1950, the homosexuals used the connection between social categorization and self-articulation to launch the nation's first sustained gay rights movement. That effort, which forged a public political identity around what had been the most intimate of personal characteristics, was emblematic of the kind of action that dominated urban political culture in the ensuing decades. |
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